'Uttar Pradesh Elections' - 1000 News Result(s)

The Election Commission has organised more than 10 vote machines that were recently used in elections in Uttar Pradesh for tomorrow's hackathon, where political parties will try to prove in Delhi that the machines can be rigged.

Flattened by the BJP in this year's Uttar Pradesh elections, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party is in the middle of its worst crisis since 2003, when a section of party legislators had split to help arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav come to power in the state. On Wednesday, Ms Mayawati expelled one of her closest aides and the party's Muslim face Naseemud...

In 2009, popular Bhojpuri actor Manoj Tiwari contested the national election from Uttar Pradesh as a Samajwadi Party candidate. He was fielded by the party from Gorakhpur, which has only sent the BJP's Yogi Adityanath to parliament since 1998. Mr Tiwari stood no chance.

Days ahead of the civic polls, the JD(U) today lodged a complaint with the State Election Commission (SEC) alleging that voters hailing from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were being intimidated by members of rival parties.

The Aam Aadmi Party has deserted the Purvanchalis - people of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar -- who voted it to power in Delhi, the Janata Dal (United) today alleged, saying that the community had now "switched over" to the Nitish Kumar-led political outfit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma were the only two Indians to make it to an annual list of '100 most influential people in the world' this year released by the Time magazine today.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today urged the Election Commission to allow political parties to supervise the coding software of electronic voting machines (EVMs). His demand comes in the wake of the poll panel throwing an open challenge to hack its EVMs following a chorus by Opposition parties on alleged tampering of the machines in the r...

Amid a huge push by opposition to allege Electronic Voting Machines are not safe, the Uttar Pradesh poll body that conducts civic body polls has told the Election Commission that the state preferred to use paper ballots if the central poll panel couldn't supply voting machines in "good working condition". SK Agarwal, State Election Commissioner, to...

The Congress, leading a group of 13 major parties, has formally petitioned the powerful Election Commission against using Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs in states which are due to vote soon like Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, while alleging that machines were rigged in recent elections including in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress today joined the opposition chorus of "no EVMs," forcing a brief adjournment in parliament's Upper House Rajya Sabha along with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party. Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress said EVMs or electronic voting machines should not be used in the Gujarat assembly elections later this year as they are...

'Uttar Pradesh Elections' - 1000 News Result(s)

The Election Commission has organised more than 10 vote machines that were recently used in elections in Uttar Pradesh for tomorrow's hackathon, where political parties will try to prove in Delhi that the machines can be rigged.

Flattened by the BJP in this year's Uttar Pradesh elections, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party is in the middle of its worst crisis since 2003, when a section of party legislators had split to help arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav come to power in the state. On Wednesday, Ms Mayawati expelled one of her closest aides and the party's Muslim face Naseemud...

In 2009, popular Bhojpuri actor Manoj Tiwari contested the national election from Uttar Pradesh as a Samajwadi Party candidate. He was fielded by the party from Gorakhpur, which has only sent the BJP's Yogi Adityanath to parliament since 1998. Mr Tiwari stood no chance.

Days ahead of the civic polls, the JD(U) today lodged a complaint with the State Election Commission (SEC) alleging that voters hailing from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were being intimidated by members of rival parties.

The Aam Aadmi Party has deserted the Purvanchalis - people of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar -- who voted it to power in Delhi, the Janata Dal (United) today alleged, saying that the community had now "switched over" to the Nitish Kumar-led political outfit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma were the only two Indians to make it to an annual list of '100 most influential people in the world' this year released by the Time magazine today.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today urged the Election Commission to allow political parties to supervise the coding software of electronic voting machines (EVMs). His demand comes in the wake of the poll panel throwing an open challenge to hack its EVMs following a chorus by Opposition parties on alleged tampering of the machines in the r...

Amid a huge push by opposition to allege Electronic Voting Machines are not safe, the Uttar Pradesh poll body that conducts civic body polls has told the Election Commission that the state preferred to use paper ballots if the central poll panel couldn't supply voting machines in "good working condition". SK Agarwal, State Election Commissioner, to...

The Congress, leading a group of 13 major parties, has formally petitioned the powerful Election Commission against using Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs in states which are due to vote soon like Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, while alleging that machines were rigged in recent elections including in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress today joined the opposition chorus of "no EVMs," forcing a brief adjournment in parliament's Upper House Rajya Sabha along with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party. Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress said EVMs or electronic voting machines should not be used in the Gujarat assembly elections later this year as they are...

After allegations of harassment by "anti-Romeo squads" ordered in Uttar Pradesh by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the police chief has established some ground rules in a series of letters issued recently. There should be "no hair-shaving, blackening of the face or murga punishment," Director General of Police Javeed Ahmed has said in a letter to...

Yogi Adityanath's stock is high as a star campaigner after the BJP's massive win in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The UP Chief Minister will also be seen in Delhi, where he headlines a power-packed star cast of campaigners for the municipal elections month.

Yogi Adityanath will be among the show-stoppers that the BJP will use in its campaign in Gujarat, where elections are due by December. The 44-year-old Yogi or monk was the surprise pick for Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh two weeks ago. "All Chief Ministers of our party across the country have been invited to campaign and Yogi ji will also be there...

The Gujarat state assembly elections will have one more star campaigner in newly-anointed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to canvass for the ruling BJP, which is seeking a sixth re-election to power in a row since 1995.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation through his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' on March 26. The last edition of the programme came with amid assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, where elections were being held in seven phases. PM Modi spoke on a variety of issues ranging from the ISRO's historic record-breaking launch of 10...

Yogi Adityanth, who was sworn-in as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister on March 19, addressed his first public meeting as the state's chief. He addressed a rally in Gorakhpur, his hometown, where he returned nearly a week after he was appointed the Chief Minister of India's most populous state. The BJP came to power in UP with a massive victory on March...

The controversy over the electronic voting machines that started from Lucknow after the BJP's massive win in Uttar Pradesh and triggered a discussion in Rajya Sabha this week has reached the Supreme Court. On Friday, the top court issued notice to the poll panel on a petition that wanted the machines to be tested by international computer experts. ...

Today, it was the turn of the BJP's parliamentarians from Gujarat and Rajasthan to breakfast with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence. The PM met with nearly 50 of them to discuss the election that's due in December in his home state of Gujarat.

Yogi Adityanath has received many visitors since he became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh but one guest this morning merited a double-take. Aparna Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law, called on the Chief Minister along with her husband Prateek Yadav, the Samajwadi patriarch's younger son. What was described as a "courtesy call" has drawn ...

Over breakfast at his home this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tabled a few health warnings for his party's MPs from Uttar Pradesh: that they should not seek favours from newly-installed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and that while the BJP's record win in the state is an impressive feat, there's no time to sit back and relax.

"If your conscience is so clear, why not call for elections (again) using paper ballot,". That was Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's message to the BJP in the Rajya Sabha to, re-iterating her allegation Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were tampered with in the just concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.